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[Virtue Falls] by Christina Dodd
Virtue Falls series Book #1
3 ★
Twenty-three years ago, in the isolated coastal town of Virtue Falls, Washington, four year old Elizabeth Banner witnessed her mother's brutal murder. Elizabeth's father was convicted of killing Misty and sentenced to prison. Elizabeth grew from a solitary child to a beautiful woman with a cool scientific mind and an instinctive distrust of love. Now Elizabeth is back in Virtue Falls, a geologist like her father, her life guided by logic and facts. But nothing can help her through the emotional chaos that follows the return of her ex-husband, Garik Jacobsen, an FBI agent on probation and tortured by the guilt of his past deeds. Nor can it help her deal with her father, now stricken with Alzheimer's and haunted by Misty's ghost. When a massive earthquake reveals long-concealed secrets, Is the killer still at large, stalking ever closer to the one witness to Misty's murder? To Elizabeth herself? Elizabeth and Garik investigate, stirring old dark and deadly resentments that could provoke another bloody murder...Elizabeth's own.The story is multi - layered with secrets and knowledge. While I enjoyed the plot of the book, it wasn't long into the story before the character's dialog began to grate on my nerves. The book also jumped between time frames and had so many characters it became difficult to keep up with them. I gave it 3 stars because it is fast-paced with an interesting plot in spite of the story being a somewhat predictable.
